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I'm hoping Trump chooses Matt for AG when he gets elected.
There may be other more qualified candidates out there that I'm unaware of, but I'm impressed by Matt.
Results for year, tomorrow.
Sen Kennedy interviews a climate dude:
https://rumble.com/v4l3mfr-senator-john-kennedy-dismantled-clueless-gen-z-climate-change-expert.html
The punishment was so overdone that I bought some more BA stock. I was patiently waiting with an order to buy at $175, but after a few days of bloodbath, it was obvious from the chart that it wouldn't tap it, so I bought in (more) at $180. So far so good, we'll see what happens..
Hey gmen, I follow the Boeing board. This recent posts speaks to some of the recent issues that all get blamed on Boeing:
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174051870
Good morning Larry. Agreed, he was especially on target.
Kunstler:
CLUSTERFUCK NATION – BLOGMarch 22, 2024
Wake-up Call
“Those who organized the disaster will take advantage of the inevitable discontent arising from efforts to overcome it, for if there is one thing that they are skilled in, it is demagoguery.” —Theodore Dalrymple
Can you feel it? The tension rising to the red-line? It runs clear through all of Western Civ. We are ruled by governments of fiends. But now, the sun rides higher in the sky. The sap is rising in the northern forests. The earth heaves. The buds swell and blush. Something is in the air. The animals are waking from their long winter sleep. The natives are restless.
The two traditional political divisions, liberal and conservative died with Covid. Now there are simply the sane versus the insane. The sane have had enough of being pushed around by the insane. The insane don’t register much of what reality tries to tell them. They have a body of insane ideas to comfort and protect them from the reality’s rigors. To call that body of ideas an “ideology” is way too polite.
That the insane call themselves “progressive,” is a signature of their insanity. Progress toward what better state of things? Toward a supremacy of fiends, sadists, degenerates, and morons seizing riches and power by every dishonest means possible outside the rule of law and common decency? It’s not even suitable to call them “communists.” They lack the necessary idealism for that. They don’t expect to put their shoulders to the wheel with their fellow man. They just want to grab your stuff and then kill you so they don’t have to hear any complaints.
The insane do not believe any of the theoretical bullshit they want to force you to swallow. They don’t care about climate change. It’s just a cudgel they use to beat everyone over the head so they can steal your stuff. They don’t care about “democracy.” It’s just a line of bullshit to cover up their election-stealing. Do you suppose that sane people would keep using electronic vote-tabulating machines that were demonstrably connected to the Internet, and thus hackable, if they cared about election integrity? Of course not. They would arrange p.d.q. to junk them and use paper ballots, and only in person at polling places, with “absentee” exceptions only for people out of the country.
The insane do not care about public health. Everything that is known about the Covid-19 vaccinations tells you that they are unsafe and don’t prevent infection or transmission of a flu-like illness that might not even be what it was officially labeled as. Our public health officials in the FDA, the CDC, and in other corners of the Department of health and Human Services, lie about everything they’re responsible for. This week, the CDC (under Director Mandy Cohen) released a 148-page study on myocarditis reactions to mRNA shots. Every word on every page of the document was redacted. The CDC printed countless copies of the report with 148 utterly blank pages, and then proffered them to the news media. How is that not insane?
The insane do not care about the rule of law. The conduct of “Lawfare” is the subversion of the law by dishonest means. It is a species of racketeering. And that is why Lawfare rogues such Marc Elias, Norm Eisen, Andrew Weissmann, Mary McCord, Lisa Monaco, Matthew Graves, and Merrick Garland, should be charged under the federal RICO statutes for conspiring to deprive sane citizens of their rights and property in the many cases related to the 1/6/21 riot at the US Capitol.
It is, so far, an abiding mystery of contemporary history as to how New York Attorney General Letitia James managed to get away with prosecuting a real estate case against Donald Trump that was no more than victimless business-as-usual between a borrower and his lenders. Ms. James ran for that elected office promising to “get” Mr. Trump on something, anything. That is not how the rule of law works. Under the rule of law, first you determine that there is a crime and then look for who did the crime.
Letitia James must be insane and/or pretty stupid. The short-term gain of stealing Mr. Trump’s property under a false color-of-law and creating impediments to his election campaign, will, sooner or later, blow back at her as a matter of malicious prosecution and, plausibly, racketeering as well. (With whom did she conspire to bring this case? We shall find out.) She will eventually be disgraced publicly as her teammate Fani Willis has already been disgraced in Fulton County, Georgia. I’ll tell you something that all sane people now know but won’t talk about for fear of being crushed by the levers of Lawfare: this looks like a concerted effort by people-of-color to railroad people of non-color. If you think that is a good thing for race relations in our country, then you are insane.
Here are a bunch of other things that are insane: Re-litigating the first amendment is insane. It means what it says, and states it plainly. The open border is insane. No credible sovereign polity would allow it. It would be opposed with force, if necessary. Turning children into transsexuals on a wholesale basis is insane, and fiendishly so. Everybody knows that it is not good for the children or for our society as a whole. But fiends got to fiend, and if you try to deprive them of being fiends then you are guilty of “hate.”
The war in Ukraine is insane. We certainly didn’t ignite it in the service of “democracy.” Our pawn there, Mr. Zelensky, canceled the national elections last year. The war was arguably an effort by our CIA to deprive Russia of its market for natgas in Europe, and thus deprive Russia of a great deal of money, that is, of prosperity. The project failed. Russia overcame NATO’s proxy army and found other markets for its gas. Blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines only served to impoverish and weaken our NATO allies, who no longer have affordable gas to run their industries. The leaders of those allies were too insane to recognize that the Nord Stream op was an act-of-war against them. They were also busy destroying themselves, like the USA, with open borders. They will end up in a new medievalism, ruled by savages. You’d have to be insane to arrange that for yourself.
What’s most obviously insane in our country is that the insane party is pretending to nominate the mentally unfit White House place-keeper, “Joe Biden,” for reelection. You would think that if this party wanted to retain power, they would run a candidate who, though insane, was not also visibly senile. But the rank and file of this party are too insane to see that this dodge is not working. They are pretending with all their might that this is okay, that the growing faction of the sane don’t notice.
Sensing the growing impatience with insanity among the voters, the insane party has reached its point of terminal desperation. What will they try next? Murder? Why not? Nothing else seemed to work. They are too far gone in their insanity to understand that winter is over. We’ve entered the season of rebirth and renewal, starting with a renewed appreciation for being sane and for that indispensable ingredient that makes liberty in a free society possible: good faith. Really, the only question left is: how rough do they intend to play to prevent the return of sanity and good faith?
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/wake-up-call-2/
Very sad about this attack in Moscow. Shades of 9/11 where innocents suffer,
God have mercy.
I think we need to have updated rules of engagement in El Paso.
Mitch McConnell sex tape:
https://rumble.com/v4kp3b9-turtle-courtship-behavior-testudo-hermanni.html
LOL! Good one Flo!
Ramaswamy Calls On SCOTUS To Step In On Trump N.Y. Judgment
OAN’s Sam Valk
12:55 PM – Thursday, March 21, 2024
Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has called for New York Attorney General Letitia James to be disbarred.
On X (Twitter) on Thursday, the Donald Trump surrogate slammed the Democrat for imposing excessive fines on the 45th president in an attempt to bankrupt him.
“The Letitia James crusade against Donald Trump is disgusting and is a threat to every American,” he stated.
The 8th Amendment was designed to protect against excessive fines or bail imposed to achieve unjust ends. Letitia James’ crusade against Trump fits that to a tee. She should be disbarred. pic.twitter.com/EaB7W9YcZ7
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) March 21, 2024
He said that it’s un-American to dictate hundreds of millions be paid in fines in order to receive an appeal. The entrepreneur called for the Supreme Court to step in.
“This is an opportunity for the Supreme Court to step in and say no, we’re not going to stand for this kind of lawfare, whether it’s against Donald Trump or a Democrat, it’s wrong,” Ramaswamy said. “We don’t want to empower prosecutors to use bond and bail, or bonds as a way of achieving a goal that they couldn’t achieve through the front door, which is bankrupting an opponent, even stopping them being able to appeal those decisions.”
Ramaswamy said he expects even left-leaning members of the court to side with the 8th Amendment’s clause banning such excessive punishments.
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/ramaswamy-calls-on-scotus-to-step-in-on-trump-n-y-judgment/
An excellent summation of the transition of the long hairs of our youth! (or for pos... Yutes)
I certainly agree with on that. There were no victims!
It might be a great way for Trump to start his exit from the rotting metropolis. The people there hate him, and business will continue to fade as they continue their tyranny. Why not go where you are appreciated. He's more than welcome down here.
I'm for the "Do Nothing" option. If she confiscates anything, it will be rocket fuel for his campaign.
Golden Cross tomorrow.
Yawn,
While I didn't see any announcement on our news feeds, I found this at the Widepoint site:
https://feeds.issuerdirect.com/news-release.html?newsid=5101624629962904
March 26th
seems like year-end results should be out about now.
Kunstler:
CLUSTERFUCK NATION – BLOGMarch 18, 2024
Gags and Jibes
“My law firm is currently in court fighting for free and fair elections in 52 cases across 19 states.” — Marc Elias, DNC Lawfare Ninja, punking voters
Have you noticed how quickly our Ukraine problem went away, vanished, phhhhttttt? At least from the top of US news media websites. The original idea, as cooked-up by departed State Department strategist Victoria Nuland, was to make Ukraine a problem for Russia, but instead we made it a problem for everybody else, especially ourselves in the USA, since it looked like an attempt to kick-start World War Three. Now she is gone, but the plans she laid apparently live on.
Our Congress so far has resisted coughing up another $60-billion for the Ukraine project — most of it to be laundered through Raytheon (RTX), General Dynamics, and Lockheed Martin — so instead “Joe Biden” sent Ukraine’s President Zelensky a few reels of Laurel and Hardy movies. The result was last week’s prank: four groups of mixed Ukraine troops and mercenaries drawn from sundry NATO members snuck up to the border of Russia’s Belgorod region to capture a nuclear weapon storage facility while Russia held its presidential election. I suppose it looked good on the war-gaming screen.
Alas, the raid was a fiasco. Russian intel was on it like white-on-rice. The raiders met ferocious resistance and retreated into a mine-field — this was the frontier, you understand, between Kharkov (Ukr) and Belgorod (Rus) — where they were annihilated. The Russian election concluded Sunday without further incident. V.V. Putin, running against three other candidates from fractional parties, won with 87 percent of the vote. He’s apparently quite popular.
“Joe Biden,” not so much here, where he is pretending to run for reelection with a party pretending to go along with the gag. Ukraine is lined up to become Afghanistan Two, another gross embarrassment for the US foreign policy establishment and “JB” personally. So, how long do you think V. Zelensky will be bopping around Kiev like Al Pacino in Scarface?
This time, poor beleaguered Ukraine won’t need America’s help plotting a coup. When that happens, as it must, since Mr. Z has nearly destroyed his country, and money from the USA for government salaries and pensions did not arrive on-time, there will be peace talks between his successors and Mr. Putin’s envoys. The optimum result for all concerned — including NATO, whether the alliance knows it or not — will be a demilitarized Ukraine, allowed to try being a nation again, though in a much-reduced condition than prior to its becoming a US bear-poking stick. It will be on a short leash within Russia’s sphere-of-influence, where it has, in fact, resided for centuries, and life will go on. Thus, has Russia at considerable cost, had to reestablish the status quo.
Meanwhile, Saturday night, “Joe Biden” turned up at the annual Gridiron dinner thrown by the White House [News] Correspondents’ Association, where he told the ballroom of Intel Community quislings: “You make it possible for ordinary citizens to question authority without fear or intimidation.” The dinner, you see, is traditionally a venue for jokes and jibes. So, this must have been a gag, right? Try to imagine The New York Times questioning authority. For instance, the authority of the DOJ, the FBI, the DHS, and the DC Federal District court. Instant hilarity, right?
As it happens, though, today, Monday, March 18, 2024, attorneys for the State of Missouri (and other parties) in a lawsuit against “Joe Biden” (and other parties) will argue in the Supreme Court that those government agencies above, plus the US State Department, with assistance from the White House (and most of the White House press corps, too), were busy for years trying to prevent ordinary citizens from questioning authority. For instance, questioning the DOD’s Covid-19 prank, the CDC’s vaccination op, the DNC’s 2020 election fraud caper, the CIA’s Frankenstein experiments in Ukraine, the J6 “insurrection,” and sundry other trips laid on the ordinary citizens of the USA.
Specifically, Missouri v. Biden is about the government’s efforts to coerce social media into censoring any and all voices that question official dogma. The case is about birthing the new concept — new to America, anyway — known as “misinformation” — that is, truth about what our government is doing that cannot be allowed to enter the public arena, making it very difficult for ordinary citizens to question authority. The government will apparently argue that they were not coercing, they were just trying to persuade the social media execs to do this or that.
Maybe one of the justices might ask how it came to be that a Chief Counsel of the FBI, James Baker, after a brief rest-stop at a DC think tank, happened to take the job as Chief Counsel at Twitter in 2020. That was a mighty strange switcheroo, don’t you think? And ordinary citizens were not generally informed of it until the fall of 2022, when Elon Musk bought Twitter and delved into its workings.
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/gags-and-jibes/
A leisurely little bike ride:
https://knewz.com/washington-woman-recounts-harrowing-cougar-attack/
It's hard to not be discouraged. However, to me it seems that the tide is beginning to turn.
We'll see what happens.
Kunstler:
CLUSTERFUCK NATION – BLOGMarch 15, 2024
Consequences Minus Truth
“People crave trust in others, because God is found there.” — Dom de Bailleul
The rewards of civilization have come to seem rather trashy in these bleak days of late empire; so, why even bother pretending to be civilized? This appears to be the ethos driving our politics and culture now. But driving us where? Why, to a spectacular sort of crack-up, and at warp speed, compared to the more leisurely breakdown of past societies that arrived at a similar inflection point where Murphy’s Law replaced the rule of law.
The US Military Academy at West point decided to “upgrade” its mission statement this week by deleting the phrase Duty, Honor, Country that summarized its essential moral orientation. They replaced it with an oblique reference to “Army Values,” without spelling out what these values are, exactly, which could range from “embrace the suck” to “charlie foxtrot” to “FUBAR” — all neatly applicable to our country’s current state of perplexity and dread.
Are you feeling more confident that the US military can competently defend our country? Probably more like the opposite, because the manipulation of language is being used deliberately to turn our country inside-out and upside-down. At this point we probably could not successfully pacify a Caribbean island if we had to, and you’ve got to wonder what might happen if we have to contend with countless hostile subversive cadres who have slipped across the border with the estimated nine-million others ushered in by the government’s welcome wagon.
Momentous events await. This Monday, the Supreme Court will entertain oral arguments on the case Missouri, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., et al. The integrity of the First Amendment hinges on the decision. Do we have freedom of speech as set forth in the Constitution? Or is it conditional on how government officials feel about some set of circumstances? At issue specifically is the government’s conduct in coercing social media companies to censor opinion in order to suppress so-called “vaccine hesitancy” and to manipulate public debate in the 2020 election. Government lawyers have argued that they were merely “communicating” with Twitter, Facebook, Google, and others about “public health disinformation and election conspiracies.”
You can reasonably suppose that this was our government’s effort to disable the truth, especially as it conflicted with its own policy and activities — from supporting BLM riots to enabling election fraud to mandating dubious vaccines. Former employees of the FBI and the CIA were directly implanted in social media companies to oversee the carrying-out of censorship orders from their old headquarters. The former general counsel (top lawyer) for the FBI, James Baker, slid unnoticed into the general counsel seat at Twitter until Elon Musk bought the company late in 2022 and flushed him out. The so-called Twitter Files uncovered by indy reporters Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and others, produced reams of emails from FBI officials nagging Twitter execs to de-platform people and bury their dissent. You can be sure these were threats, not mere suggestions.
One of the plaintiffs joined to Missouri v. Biden is Dr. Martin Kulldorff, a biostatistician and professor at the Harvard Medical School, who opposed Covid-19 lockdowns and vaccine mandates. He was one of the authors of the open letter called The Great Barrington Declaration (October, 2020) that articulated informed medical dissent for a bamboozled public. He was fired from his job at Harvard just this past week for continuing his refusal to take the vaccine. Harvard remains among a handful of institutions that still require it, despite massive evidence that it is ineffective and hazardous. Like West Point, maybe Harvard should ditch its motto, Veritas, Latin for “truth.”
A society hostile to truth can’t possibly remain civilized, because it will also be hostile to reality. That appears to be the disposition of the people running things in the USA these days. The problem, of course, is that this is not a reality-optional world, despite the wishes of many Americans (and other peoples of Western Civ) who wish it would be.
Next up for us will be “Joe Biden’s” attempt to complete the bankruptcy of our country with $7.3-trillion proposed budget, 20 percent over the previous years spending, based on a $5-billion tax increase. Good luck making that work. New York City alone is faced with paying $387 a day for food and shelter for each of an estimated 64,800 illegal immigrants, which amounts to $9.15-billion a year. The money doesn’t exist, of course. New York can thank “Joe Biden’s” executive agencies for sticking them with this unbearable burden. It will be the end of New York City. There will be no money left for public services or cultural institutions. That’s the reality and that’s the truth.
A financial crack-up is probably the only thing short of all-out war that will get the public’s attention at this point. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it happened next week. Historians of the future, stir-frying crickets and fiddleheads over their campfires will marvel at America’s terminal act of gluttony: managing to eat itself alive.
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/consequences-minus-truth/
Mark Hemmingway sums it up:
2024 Is Shaping Up To Be The ‘We Were Right About Everything’ Election
BY: MARK HEMINGWAY
MARCH 15, 2024
Crime, Covid, the economy, immigration, foreign policy, education — Biden’s poor ratings show voters are starting to ask if Democrats have gotten any issue right in the last four years.
Last week, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered the National Guard to start patrolling the subways of New York City to deal with the city’s crime problem, which has been metastasizing for years now.
There was a lot of guffawing from the online peanut gallery, and understandably so. In the summer of 2020, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., had written a New York Times op-ed suggesting the deployment of the military to quell the rioting that destroyed dozens of cities and did billions of dollars in damage. Though polls showed Cotton’s suggestion had popular support, the Times’ own staff revolted against their employer, with several employees publicly reciting some version of the mantra that publishing Cotton’s op-ed put “black people in danger.”
But now? Mara Gay, a member of the Times’ editorial board who had been quite vocal in her opposition to publishing the Cotton op-ed, has now authored a column headlined, “The National Guard Might Help Subway Riders Feel Safer.” (For what it’s worth, Mara Gay is not related to disgraced former Harvard president Claudine Gay, though Times columnist Roxane Gay, who also opposed the Cotton op-ed, is.) In four years, we went from Democrats essentially saying we had to tolerate the lawless devastation of dozens of American city centers to fully endorsing armed 20-year-olds rifling through your bag before you use public transportation to deal with the ordinary criminality they allowed to fester.
And no, they do not care that this is profoundly hypocritical or that Cotton’s reason for deploying the National Guard was far more reasonable than Hochul’s. In this regard, the blasé attitude toward Hochul’s deployment of the National Guard is alarming — deliberately allowing a criminal underclass to undermine existing order and then using the resulting lawlessness as a pretext to extend government control over law-abiding citizens is textbook tyranny.
The murder rate during Covid lockdowns went down in nearly all of the Western world, but it spiked in America because Democrats actively supported political violence they perceived would help them win an election. At the same time, local political authorities defunded police departments, threatened citizens who tried to defend themselves in the absence of law and order, and even valorized despicable criminals by falsely claiming they were victims of racism. The current crime problem in America is a result of the fact that Democrats knowingly unleashed a crime wave and, four years later, can’t put the genie back in the bottle and have left Americans saddled with ultra-left-wing district attorneys who refuse to prosecute.
However, the more immediate context of this whole episode is pretty revealing. Democrats simply can’t wrap their heads around what’s happening in the current election. A lot can happen in eight months, but for some time now Trump has been definitively leading in the polls, which is a marked reversal from 2020. And this is not just about the fact that Joe Biden is feckless and senile.
Democrats are simultaneously hitting the panic button and desperately casting about for explanations as to why Trump is winning, but the answer is at once simple and overwhelming: They haven’t reckoned with the fact that the electorate, including a lot of traditionally Democrat constituencies, are starting to notice that in recent years the default right-of-center position on just about every major political issue has proven correct, where the left-wing ruling class has been quite definitively wrong.
The List Is Long
Obviously, making this broad observation is not necessarily an endorsement of Trump or the GOP, and there are probably some finer policy points where you can plausibly disagree. But on just about every issue that has dominated the public discourse post-Trump, the pro-Democrat establishment either staked out a fringe position or was proven wrong by subsequent events. It’s hard to even know where to begin.
On Covid, it’s abundantly clear that red states that refused mass shutdowns and excessive regulations didn’t see any worse health outcomes — and the damage from the shutdowns and Covid mandates is still lasting. The idea that our strained health care system was laying off people for refusing to take a “vaccine” that we now know doesn’t prevent you from getting the virus has been a disaster, to say nothing of our strained military, in the middle of a massive recruiting crisis, forcibly ejecting thousands over vaccine mandates.
Then there’s the fact that Covid killed off 200,000 businesses in just the first year. How many businesses could have been saved with more reasonable Covid regulations? Then there was the distrust sewn with the public through all of the coronavirus propaganda and social media censorship. Your posts could be banned from Facebook for even speculating that the virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, an outcome that the government now acknowledges is more likely than not.
The worst outcome, however, might have been the Biden administration irresponsibly outsourcing its Covid policy on schools to the teachers unions, who fought to keep schools closed for more than a year in some places, followed by an insistence on ineffective and difficult-to-enforce mask mandates on children. Even left-wing publications now openly acknowledge Covid school closures were unnecessary and disastrous for America’s kids, but by the time they found the courage to say what was abundantly obvious to the rest of us, the damage was done.
The bottom line is that the Covid response fundamentally eroded trust between citizens and the government like no other issue in generations, and Democrat lawmakers were pretty clearly on, as they like to say, “the wrong side of history.”
Of course, the school closures issue was just emblematic of the long-running decline of American education, which is almost wholly a result of teachers unions. Their enormous donations to Democrats effectively serve as protection money, and for decades, this unholy alliance effectively made even the most basic education reforms impossible.
Post-Covid, however, Americans who were forced to see what their kids were learning via remote schooling have largely woken up to the fact that education has been politicized beyond repair. In just the last three years, West Virginia, Arizona, Iowa, Utah, Arkansas, Florida, Oklahoma, Ohio, and Indiana have all passed school-choice legislation, and more states such as Texas are likely to enact it soon. The good news is homeschooling is skyrocketing in popularity, and private and religious schools are popping up everywhere.
Meanwhile, large urban school districts are failing in ways that should be a national emergency. Washington, D.C., high schools have a 60 percent chronic absenteeism and a 47 percent truancy rate. (You read that correctly.) In 53 Illinois schools, not one student can do math at grade level, and there are reportedly 30 where no one can read at grade level. If Democrats cared about kids, they would be moving heaven and earth right now to fix these schools. They don’t care about educating kids, but Democrats and their union funders will fight a national political battle to make sure your kids can access pornography in schools.
As for the economy, which is typically the biggest issue in any given election, the reaction from Democrats has been… disbelief. For months now, leftist pundits have expressed incredulity that Joe Biden is not being given credit for an improving economy. After all, who isn’t reassured when the president says things such as, “We have among the lowest inflation rates of any country in America!”
Meanwhile, his own Treasury secretary is apologizing for saying inflation was “transitory,” and food prices are still 21 percent higher than when he took office. The average 30-year mortgage rate is near 7 percent, after hovering around 2-3 percent during Trump’s presidency. While Biden didn’t inherit the best economic situation coming out of Covid, there’s zero doubt that his absurd spending policies, including the erroneously named Inflation Reduction Act, are largely to blame, especially considering the White House spent the first several months of Biden’s term gaslighting anyone warning they were about to trigger runaway inflation.
That brings us to foreign policy, where it’s hard to know where to begin. Trump had the distinction of being the first president since Carter not to get the U.S. involved in any new conflicts, and the Abraham Accords were a stunning step toward peace in the Middle East no one thought possible.
Under Biden, war now threatens to consume Europe and the Middle East, six American embassies around the globe have been evacuated, and Biden handled the exit from Afghanistan so poorly that during his recent State of the Union address, the father of one of the 13 service members killed in a terrorist attack at the Kabul Airport was arrested for protesting. (Try to imagine the media meltdown if a Gold Star dad was arrested during a Trump speech.)
During his first month as president, Biden removed the Houthis from America’s list of officially designated terrorist groups. Currently, the Houthis are basically in control of global shipping routes after numerous terror attacks in the Red Sea, including the sinking of a British oil tanker that has created a large environmental disaster. In response to this, Biden has just undone sanctions on Iran, even though Iran is the major sponsor of Houthi terrorism. Incredibly, at the same time, the Biden administration is sanctioning Israel in the middle of a defensive war where they are fending off Houthi attacks, and Democrats in Congress are openly trying to meddle in Israeli elections. Do you feel safer than when Trump was president?
Then there’s the not-insignificant matter of immigration, which is so bad that it has actually surpassed the economy as voters’ No. 1 concern in many polls. Allowing a whopping 10 million people to cross the border was a deliberate choice; Biden bragged about repealing all of Trump’s border controls on day one. Even Democrat strongholds and proud sanctuary cities such as Chicago and New York are now crying about being overwhelmed with the influx of migrants. Aside from the fact that the horrific crimes committed by illegal immigrants are now national news stories, migrants are also driving down wages, and “most of the post-pandemic job gains the administration continuously brags about have gone foreign-born (read immigrants, mostly illegal ones) workers.”
Finally, there’s a whole bucket of issues broadly related to the “Great Awokening” that seem to be starting to backfire. Democrats staked their claim on transsexuals being the next big triumphant civil rights battle — but polling shows that, unlike gay marriage, “trans rights” are actually getting less popular. There’s overwhelming support for basic protections of women, such as not allowing men to compete in women’s sports — even though the Biden administration has proposed using federal power to stop local schools from enacting bans on men in women’s sports. And at the college level, the White House wants to redefine Title IX to cover “gender identity,” even as female college athletes are launching federal lawsuits.
Similarly, the fever is breaking on “diversity, equity, and inclusion” and “anti-racism” — the Harvard scandal was nothing less than a national embarrassment. The Supreme Court’s decision overturning affirmative action had significant popular support. Even Disney told investors they had gone too woke, resulting in a “misalignment with public and consumer tastes and preferences for entertainment.”
When You’ve Lost San Francisco
One could go on at length about the many, many ways in which Democrats have undermined themselves by adopting and defending extreme and unworkable policies, but the public revolt is plainly evident. Guess which city very recently rejected a slew of progressive leaders, voted to drug test welfare recipients, restored police powers that had been taken away, and overturned the local schools’ policy of refusing to teach algebra before high school because “racial equity”? That happened in San Francisco!
Democrats and their public relations officers in the corporate media are very good at driving false narratives for political advantage, and they’re not accustomed to losing. However, there comes a point where having the media in your pocket might actually be harmful to Democrats — they started believing their own press, which was working overtime to downplay how bad things were. Now the problems are so obvious, they can’t ignore them. They’re being forced to fight a war on reality on dozens of fronts, and they’re showing up late to the fight.
Abortion is almost the sole issue where things are complicated for the right, and we probably shouldn’t underestimate the Republican Party’s ability to lose winnable elections. But for now, politically things are pretty stark. It’s not a mystery why Trump is leading in the polls; in very evident and practical ways, the lives of Americans were safer and more prosperous during his presidency. You can quibble with how much credit Trump deserves — Ron DeSantis certainly had some qualms with how Trump handled Covid. But while the focus is often on Trump’s temperament rather than his policy record, things are so bad he’s quite clearly an avatar for the more sensible path America could have taken.
In short, Trump gets to campaign on being right, and Biden has to defend being wrong.
https://thefederalist.com/2024/03/15/2024-is-shaping-up-to-be-the-we-were-right-about-everything-election/
Happy 3:16
Keep the faith!
You married well!
I should have read ahead,
Enjoy your evening!
He came out and said he wouldn't endorse Trump, even though he pledged to support the party's nominee.
F Mike Pence.
Thanks! A ton here, a ton there... before you know it we're talking about real weight!
Great advice, but my days of parking in a garage are, and shall remain, way behind me.
Once again proves there's a two-tier justice system.
Good morning kk.
Makes you wonder whether parking garages could withstand a full load of EVs.
Doesn't resolve to 100 trillion decimal places, can you imagine?
Kind of like our political difference of late.
Most of the comments are spot on. A few are pretty coarse; however, I support their right to speak freely.
Thanks for posting the article. I had only seen clips on TV.
In honor of Pi day:
https://www.britannica.com/science/pi-mathematics
The black beast that beat that little girl's head into the concrete needs to go to prison for a long, long time. Freekin savage!